1 00:00:01,580 --> 00:00:06,160 For nearly all of his eighty-six years Jacque Fresco has been designing 2 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,360 cities of the future. 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:10,140 This is what it looks like; 4 00:00:10,140 --> 00:00:12,620 a future where technology is harnessed for all 5 00:00:12,620 --> 00:00:14,920 and money has no relevance. 6 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:17,680 It's called The Venus Project and he says 7 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,700 50 million people around the world are now involved or aware of it 8 00:00:22,180 --> 00:00:24,880 (French) 9 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,680 (Spanish) 10 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:29,840 (Croatian) 11 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,440 You may not have heard of Jacque Fresco, 12 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:33,580 but he is known around the world. 13 00:00:33,580 --> 00:00:35,720 Documentaries have been done about him. 14 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,120 Magazine writers from Europe 15 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:38,940 have written stories about him. 16 00:00:42,220 --> 00:00:45,260 I've now come to the other side of the world to Florida 17 00:00:45,260 --> 00:00:47,800 to a place called The Venus Project 18 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,420 to meet a man who has a very clear vision of what he thinks 19 00:00:51,420 --> 00:00:54,480 the future of cities should look like. 20 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:58,100 Fresco's vision goes beyond architecture. 21 00:00:58,780 --> 00:01:03,740 He sees his cities as tools for fostering humanistic values. 22 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,700 I feel that environment shapes our values; 23 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,080 the people we know, the people we identify with... 24 00:01:11,540 --> 00:01:13,380 what will drive people in the future? 25 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:15,320 a world without war, 26 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:16,120 without hatred 27 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,020 without bigotry, without prejudice... 28 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,020 The future isn't Star Wars according to Jacque, 29 00:01:22,020 --> 00:01:23,740 it's a home for everyone. 30 00:01:23,740 --> 00:01:25,980 Jacque thinks he has the answer 31 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,400 in the city of the future. 32 00:01:28,660 --> 00:01:31,440 We'll show a world in which values are different, 33 00:01:31,780 --> 00:01:33,180 the aspirations of people, 34 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:34,660 they have compassion, 35 00:01:34,860 --> 00:01:35,940 feeling for one another, 36 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:37,620 concern over the environment. 37 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,280 He's a self-educated industrial designer, engineer and futurist 38 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,120 who truly believes the ills of society can be cured 39 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,900 only if we throw away the rules that govern it, and ourselves. 40 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,260 A resource-based economy states that 41 00:01:51,260 --> 00:01:52,680 if you declare the earth 42 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:58,340 and all its resources as the common heritage of all of the world's people 43 00:01:58,620 --> 00:02:03,060 there's no need for armies, navies, police, prisons; 44 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,680 none of that's necessary if people have access to their needs. 45 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,960 Now we'll start with this and you tell me... 46 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:12,760 You can point right at it. 47 00:02:13,260 --> 00:02:17,580 The center of the city, the nucleus, will house an electronic computer. 48 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,740 The computers do not control people. 49 00:02:20,740 --> 00:02:25,960 All the machines do is control the physical entities that comprise the environment. 50 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:31,580 You can't be human or decent without the knowledge to overcome scarcity. 51 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,320 He was talking about this stuff before it became trendy, before it became popular, 52 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,380 before Al Gore started talking about it. 53 00:02:38,420 --> 00:02:40,740 To save our land, to save our environment, 54 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,780 we've got to reorganize our way of thinking and reconsider 55 00:02:44,780 --> 00:02:48,220 our social aims toward the brotherhood of man. 56 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,520 If you had a free society, you couldn't get people to go to war 57 00:02:51,860 --> 00:02:55,560 if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in one's children. 58 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,280 They would say there must be many other ways of solving problems 59 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,160 other than killing people. 60 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,520 We had him on the show, it was quite an honor. 61 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,540 It was for a long time the most-watched show. 62 00:03:06,580 --> 00:03:10,740 and it's not just an economic platform or a technology platform 63 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,160 it's really a different way of looking at humanity. 64 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,160 Now here they take a group of scientists and engineers 65 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,300 and they work on flying machines. 66 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:21,240 you give them flying machines and they use it to bomb cities. 67 00:03:21,380 --> 00:03:25,420 So how can a person be scientific if they have allegiance to their country, 68 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,180 rather than to the earth and everyone on it 69 00:03:28,180 --> 00:03:32,320 and the intelligent use of resources. This would be a scientist to me. 70 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:39,340 He is a founder of The Venus Project which integrates science and technology for a new society 71 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,100 based on human and environmental concerns. 72 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:51,580 The primary function is to maximize the quality of life rather than profits. 73 00:03:51,580 --> 00:03:53,180 Mr. Jacque Fresco. 74 00:03:53,540 --> 00:03:56,380 We have to learn how to manage real economics 75 00:03:56,380 --> 00:03:59,540 not for profit; for human betterment. 76 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:02,580 Then you'll see the beginning of the civilized world. 77 00:04:02,860 --> 00:04:05,840 It must be a privilege to serve members of society, 78 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,160 not that we want rewards or medals or honor for what we do 79 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:12,020 because it is just an honor to do it. 80 00:04:12,026 --> 00:04:14,880 You don't always communicate with people... 81 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,440 Jacque's work gave meaning to so many people's lives 82 00:04:18,780 --> 00:04:22,440 and I feel very grateful to be one of them. 83 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,460 there is nothing else I see that's more viable to work on 84 00:04:26,479 --> 00:04:30,619 that would bring such positive change to the way we live. 85 00:04:30,619 --> 00:04:32,870 I welcome your participation 86 00:04:32,870 --> 00:04:37,340 as I continue introducing this direction to others 87 00:04:37,340 --> 00:04:42,080 while taking whatever steps possible toward a saner world, 88 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,350 and I am so grateful 89 00:04:44,350 --> 00:04:47,800 for those who are working with me.